bobsmith

If this is in response to what I said, then no. The marksheet you create (based off David Potts example) will be looking at all the subjects for one resultset e.g. Spring 1 The progress 8 calculations you perform will be based on this point in time. When you have more data e.g. Spring 2 you can adjust the resultset in the template to look at the new resultset. First entry is a bit of a red herring when we are talking about assessment rather than Exam results.

Is there an idiots guide for this tool? There are no aspects showing to map to for KS4 subjects on our system??

Ah but what people are likely to be asking for, and what David Potts wrote about was an assessment marksheet i.e. looking at things like predicted/estimated grades and forecasting progress 8 so that we can target interventions etc. For this kind of analysis what we are suggesting shouldn't be as complex as the school report method as we are only dealing with teacher assessments. The first exam entry rules will only apply when looking at progress 8 once results are received during the summer.

your session marks are the important ones - while post 16 attendance isn't one of the statutory reporting items I'd always be happier from a safeguarding point of view if the attendance was accurate. If a student in present for any part of the AM or PM session they would receive a "/" for that session. If they are offsite but still being educated I'd use a "B" for the session. O is then available for true unauthorised absence. Lesson marks however are pretty much whatever you want them to be.

I've done one but you have to take any progress 8 calculations with a huge grain of salt at this point in time. It's based off David Potts example, linked above, but I've added an aspect for holding the expected attainment 8 for the student (pre calculated in excel and imported) You can then work out invidivual progress 8 and then use summary rows to get the overall. If you set it up correctly you can then play with in Discover - this was the real eye opener for our SLT! While the calculations are complex, I can't understand why they would be so complex that you couldn't do them in a marksheet. Phil Neal, can you extend your answer at all?

If it's only for 2 maths classes then you'd have a much easier time of it if you just add a comment aspect to a marksheet. Profiles are great for bringing together comments (using pre-prepared statement banks) for a load of subjects into one report - but if they want a maths only comment (and just one comment from the sounds of things) then it's complete overkill.